TYPES OF WOOD FLOORS

Solid Wood Floors-All hardwood flooring that is one piece of wood from top to bottom regardless of width or length, is considered to be solid hardwood flooring. Normal sizes range 3/8" up to 3/4", with thicker products for custom orders. The 3/8" solid in certain species is ideal for installation over radiant heat.

Solid hardwood flooring gives you ability to have a custom, one-of-kind hardwood floor in any room of your home or office. You many choose from A variety of species, whether domestic or imported exotics, colors of stains and finish types.

Adding accents, borders, medallions or even a painted hardwood floor can make your floor truly a work of art.

The product is a good choice for any room in your home from the ground level and up. Solid hardwood floor products normally can be professionally refinished 4-5 times.

Acrylic Impregnated Wood Flooring - a process where acrylics is injected into the wood itself, creating a super-hard, extremely durable floor. Often used in commercial installations, like common public areas, shopping malls, and restaurants. They also work well in high traffic areas of the household, such as kitchens and adjoining family rooms. (see maintaining an acrylic impregnated floor)

Engineered Wood Floors-Construct consisting of layers of wood pressed together and glued. The grains run in different directions for added stability (unlike solids). This product is available several ply thickness with 2 and 5 ply being the norm. Engineered hardwood flooring can be used in those areas of the house where solid wood flooring installation is not suitable.

The most common areas are basements, and areas with moisture concerns like kitchens, powder rooms, and utility rooms.

Xylon purchases the raw timber from local forests, seasons the wood in our modern driers and carefully grades the finished product to meet the specific requirements of our clients.

Our Parquet Floors are manufactured using the finest solid hardwoods that money can buy.

Xylon consultants will assist you in every stage of your flooring project - from overall design to selection of timber, grade & cut, colour & finishing.

Xylon has been awarded the ISO 9001 Quality Assurance certificate, reflecting our commitment to the quality of our production and customer service.

Our consultants will provide their expertise to help you take decisions on selection and design of your parquet floors as suitable for each room of your house of office.

EXTRA
Extra is a grade with no imperfections, all clear faces, no nodes, no color diferences, no alburns, obtained by radial cutting, flare cutting or mirror cutting.

NATUR

Nautur grade admits strong nodes up to 2 mm , alburns but no colors diferences.

TERRA

Terra grade has all clear faces, no nodes, no color diferences but little alburns.

RUSTIC

Rustic grade admits medium strong nodes 2..5 mm, alburns, and color diferences.

TAVERN

Tavern grade has strong blacks nodes 5..10 mm, alburns, color diferences.

PARQUET STYLES

Parquet choice includes selection of wood type, pattern, colour, optional marquetry, finishing lacquers.

You should be influenced in some of these choices by our sales experts who can advise on suitable choices dependent upon room type and traffic volumes.

PARQUET DESIGNS

Nail Down

Staple Down

Glue Down

Floating

Typically used with the 3/4" solid products, however there are adapters available for thinner flooring sizes as well. 2" nailing cleats are used with a wood flooring nailer and mallet to attach the flooring to the subfloor. Solid Strip floors or Plank floors can only be installed on wooden subfloors on grade or above grade.

1-1/2 to 2 inch Staples are used versus nailing cleats to attach the wood flooring to the subfloor. A pneumatic gun is used to drive the staple into the wood flooring and subfloor. This procedure is easier than the nail down for do-it-yourself installations. Not all wood flooring manufacturers recommend the same staple gun. Read the manufacturers installation manual to assure you have the right staple gun and right size staples.

The recommended mastic or adhesive is spread on with the proper sized trowel to adhere the wood flooring to the subfloor. Engineered wood floors and parquets can be glued down. Solid strip floors and plank floors can only be nailed or stapled. There are many types of adhesives on the market, please use the manufacturers recommended adhesive when installing their flooring. Not using the manufacturers recommended adhesive and trowel size could void any warranties you may have.

With the floating installation method the floor is not mechanically fastened to any part of the subfloor. There is a thin pad that is placed between the wood flooring and the subfloor. A recommended wood glue is applied in the tongue and groove of each plank to hold the planks together. The padding protects against moisture, reduces noise transmission, softer under foot, and provides for some additional "R" value. Some engineered floors and all Longstrip floors can be floated. This is a very fast, easy and clean method of installation. Please consult the manufacturer installation instructions to see if your flooring can be floated.